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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From insideHPC
Quantum: QuEra, Harvard and MIT Researchers Demonstrate Logical-Level Magic State Distillation
BOSTON, July 14, 2025 — A team of scientists from QuEra Computing, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has reported the experimental...
From Computational Complexity
How much money did Francis Scott Key give to have a building named after him?
UMCP has a building named The Francis Scott Key BuildingSTUDENT: How much money did Francis Scott Key give to have a building named after him?BILL: He didn't give...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why measuring productivity is hard
Studying productivity is challenging. About 15-20 years ago, I was obsessed over my own productivity. I created a spying agent to monitor my activities and time...
From Schneier on Security
Squid Dominated the Oceans in the Late Cretaceous
New research: One reason the early years of squids has been such a mystery is because squids’ lack of hard shells made their fossils hard to come by. Undeterred...
From insideHPC
AWS Announces AI Servers with NVIDIA Blackwell
Amazon Web Services announced general availability of P6e-GB200 UltraServers with NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Superchips. The servers are designed for training and deploying...
From Schneier on Security
Tradecraft in the Information Age
Long article on the difficulty (impossibility?) of human spying in the age of ubiquitous digital surveillance.
From Schneier on Security
Using Signal Groups for Activism
Good tutorial by Micah Lee. It includes some nonobvious use cases.
From insideHPC
AI Forcing New Technology for Data Center Network Interconnectivity
.... a new era of unpredictable traffic growth is upon us, driven by the emergence – and soon, dominance – of artificial intelligence. A recent global survey found...
From insideHPC
Canadian Scientists Use D-Wave in Quantum-AI Simulations
A team of scientists from Canadian particle accelerator center TRIUMF and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics have unveiled a "transformative research...
From insideHPC
Registration Opens for SC25 in St. Louis, Nov. 16-21
The annual Supercomputing Conference, SC25, is now open for registration. This year's event will be held in St. Louis from Sunday, Nov. 16 to Friday, Nov. 21 .....
From insideHPC
Denodo Announces Deep Research AI Capability
PALO ALTO, Calif. July 7, 2025 – Data management company Denodo announced the availability of the Denodo DeepQuery capability, as a private preview, enabling generative...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Memory-level parallelism :: Apple M2 vs Apple M4
The Apple M2, introduced in 2022, and the Apple M4, launched in 2024, are both ARM-based system-on-chip (SoC) designs featuring unified memory architecture. That...
From Computational Complexity
The Customers of the Academy
I had an epiphany reading an article in the Trenton Times when I lived in New Jersey at the turn of the century. The article interviewed companies along a certain...
From insideHPC
AI for Science: Livermore Lab Expands Deployment of Anthropic AI
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is expanding its deployment of Anthropic’s Claude for Enterprise to its entire laboratory. Anthropic said Claude will...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Gold Standard for Collaborative Science: Leveraging CCC/CRA Best Practices for Interdisciplinary Computing Research
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) recently released a memorandum to federal agencies to offer guidance on implementing the recent executive...
From insideHPC
SiPearl Tapes-out HPC and AI Chip Rhea1, Closes €130m Series A, for European Tech Sovereignty
SiPearl, the company building European processors for supercomputing and AI, said it has “completed the conception” of the Rhea1 processor, which the company said...
From insideHPC
DOE ASCR Awards 38 Million HPC Node Hours
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science today announced that it will award over 38 million node hours to 56 scientific projects under the Advanced...
From Schneier on Security
Yet Another Strava Privacy Leak
This time it’s the Swedish prime minister’s bodyguards. (Last year, it was the US Secret Service and Emmanuel Macron’s bodyguards. in 2018, it was secret US military...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Pots fixing problematic acoustics
by Dimitrios Giannoulis, Queen Mary University of London Pots are buried in the walls of medieval churches and monasteries across Europe: in the UK, Sweden, Denmark...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog